I don’t see as many bands play live as I once did, even though I tend to like music better that way. For one thing, it’s a whole lot pricier and more of an ordeal here than it was back than when I lived in Boston near a handful of great venues. My music interests have also expended considerably over the years as I’ve filled in the gaps in my pop knowledge, and frankly most older acts that I’ve rediscovered aren’t as much fun to see when they’re past their prime. As for the newer stuff the kids all listen to? Well, I barely have the energy to keep up when I’m still trying to track down MP3s of every song that once lived in the 110-cassette mixtape library I once curated.
In the interests of good record-keeping, though, here’s my updated master list. If you remember ever seeing someone with me that I’ve left out, please let me know, since this is largely reconstructed from memory.
1986–2022:
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Bryan Adams The Afro-Cuban All Stars The Allstonians Marc Almond The Alterbois Los Amigos Invisibles Laurie Anderson Ariana the Rose Ariel The Authority The B-52’s The Balanescu Quartet Barenaked Ladies Basement Jaxx Bastille Shirley Bassey Bear in Heaven Sandra Bernhard The Beta Band Björk Black 47 Blood Moon Justin Bond The Bonedaddys Book of Love BOP (harvey) The Brand New Heavies Brassy Brave Combo Bright Light Bright Light The Brodsky Quartet Brown Belt Bullet The Busters Reuben Butchart David Byrne Cafuné Candy Butchers Cazwell The Chakras Cherie Curry Chucklehead Church of Betty CHVRCHES Circle Jerks Clarko Colin Self Colon on the Cob Colourmusic Consolidated Julian Cope Corn Mo Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet Covergirl Crazy and the Brains The Creatures Allison Crutchfield & The Fizz The Cure Cursive Cherie Curry Terence Trent D’Arby Da Lipstyxx The Dead Milkmen De La Soul Depeche Mode Devo Digable Planets D’Influence Dirty Excuse Beth Ditto Dom Dresden Dance The Dueling Bankheads Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Sophie Ellis-Bextor Elva Snow El Vez ESG Cesaria Evora Faggot Fishbone The Flaming Lips Julian Fleisher Lisa Flores Fringes Diamanda Galas Galaxie 500 Gang Green Gang Starr Posse Gene Loves Jezebel Get People Gio Black Peter Glassio The Go-Gos José González Go West Guadalcanal Diary Hayseed Dixie The Hazzards Heart Imogen Heap The Hi-Hats Hunx and His Punx Hyetal Idles I, Gingko I Know I Have No Collar The Indigo Girls The Jack Rubies Joe Jackson Lisa Jackson Jonah Baseball Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings The Julie Ruin Brian Kennedy Kid Koala Kiki & Herb Kinky |
Killing JokeThe KlezmaticsLadysmith Black Mambazo
Less Than Jake Let’s Go Bowling Little Hurricane The Losers Lounge Lyle Lovett Gill Manly Man or Astro-Man? The Manta Rays Manufacture The Maul Girls Ste McCabe Jonny McGovern Meat Beat Manifesto The Melting Ice Caps The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Kylie Minogue Miss Fairchild Moby Modest Mouse Monopuff Morplay Moxa Mr. Cranky Nasty Cherry New Order Niki and the Dove The Night Terrors Nile Rodgers & Chic Novo Amor Gary Numan The NY Citizens ODESZA OK Go Orkis Pansy Division Paxton Pere Ubu Phranc The Pixies PJ Harvey Poi Dog Pondering Pop Will Eat Itself Potato 5 The Power Station The Proclaimers The Promise Public Image, Ltd. Radiohead The Rain Dogs Lee Ranaldo Anthony Rapp Rebounder R.E.M. Jonathan Richman Robyn Royal Crescent Mob Saint Etienne Salt Cathedral JD Samson & MEN The Scissor Sisters The Scofflaws John Sebastian The Selecter Shadows of Dreams Shannon and The Clams Shy Five Holiday Sidewinder Sigur Rós Siouxsie & The Banshees The Skatalites Sleater-Kinney Sleep Chamber Sleeping States SmaxXx The Smiths Jill Sobule Sofi Tukker Special Beat The Specials Skylar Spence The Spin Doctors Ssion Stephanie St. John The Sugarcubes Sylvan Esso Teen Vice Texas Is the Reason The The They Might Be Giants Think Tree The Three Terrors Thursday Tippy Toes Title Fight Toad the Wet Sprocket The Toasters The Toilet Boys Too Much Joy Tourist Tribe Trophy Wife T.S.O.L. Tune-yards Russ Turk Twist and Shout Ultramarine US Girls Vallis Alps The Velvet Mafia The Venomous Pinks The Violent Femmes Rufus Wainwright The Wau-Wau Sisters The Who Jess Williams Xavier “Weird Al” Yankovic Wire W.I.T. Yaaks Yolanda & the Plastic Family Zog |